The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh) e.V.
Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are members of eabh.
eabh members recognize their responsibility towards society. Only a well functioning financial sector can help to increase the welfare of all.
eabh places current challenges of the financial sector into a historical context. Our historians work on long-term topics that matter to the management of financial institutions and policy makers.
eabh promotes archives. Accurate and accessible records of past activities are the indispensable foundation for a sustainable global financial system.
Snippets of 2014 eabh annual conference ‘Risk Management’, 13 June 2014, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
Archival workshop ‘Banks at War. Financial Institutions confronted by the Great War.’, 12 June 2014, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
eabh circulates sound research and information upon which today’s decision makers can rely.
The legacy of the past continually resurfaces to determine actions in the present and the future. Through eabh membership institutions gain access to a global network of financial history experts who can provide competent advice.
Carmen Hofmann
Gabriella Massaglia (eds.)
eabh e.V. (ed.)
eabh e.V. (ed.)
Carmen Hofmann, eabh (ed.)
Carmen Hofmann
Martin Müller (eds.)
Carmen Hofmann
Gabriella Massaglia (eds.)
Vappu Ikonen
Duncan Ross (eds.)
Piet Clement
Harold James
Herman Van der Wee (eds.)
eabh believes that safeguarding the records of financial institutions will improve the protection of global financial stability. Authentic and reliable memory systems are needed to understand current crises and to evaluate risks.
For that reason a project on archival legislation for finance (ALFF) has been started in 2012 with the objective of collecting information about best practices of financial institutions in building and improving their archives.
Conference
9 Oct 2017
Lisbon, Portugal
eabh in cooperation with Banco do Portugal and Banque de France.
The purpose of this conference is to explore the history of the monetary and financial processes of decolonization. The objective is to shed light on the different historical cross-experiences.
Workshop
10 Nov 2017
Zagreb, Croatia
eabh in cooperation with INFUTURE The amount of data about the finance sector is growing exponentially and storing it is becoming easier. Businesses are excited about the commercial possibilities of ‘Big Data’; academics are relishing the research potential of deep data archives and regulators are hoping for a fuller view of systemic risk and stability.